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CIVIL EVIDENCE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 6

Interpretation of Part I, and application to arbitrations, etc.

6.(1) In this Part

"computer" has the meaning assigned by section 2;

"document" includes, in addition to a document in writing

(a)any map, plan, graph or drawing;

(b)any photograph;

(c)any disc, tape, sound track or other device in which sounds or other data
(not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without
the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced therefrom; and

(d)any film, negative, tape or other device in which one or more visual images
are embodied so as to be capable (as aforesaid) of being reproduced therefrom;

"film" includes a microfilm;

"statement" includes any representation of fact, whether made in words or
otherwise.

(2) In this Part any reference to a copy of a document includes

(a)in the case of a document falling within paragraph (c) but not (d) of the
definition of "document" in subsection (1), a transcript of the sounds or
other data embodied therein;

(b)in the case of a document falling within paragraph (d) but not (c) of that
definition, a reproduction or still reproduction of the image or images
embodied therein, whether enlarged or not;

(c)in the case of a document falling within both those paragraphs, such a
transcript together with such a still reproduction; and

(d)in the case of a document not falling within the said paragraph (d) of
which a visual image is embodied in a document falling within that paragraph,
a reproduction of that image, whether enlarged or not,

(3) Subject to subsection (4), for the purposes of the application of this
Part in relation to any such civil proceedings as are mentioned in
section 14(1)(a) and (b), any rules of court made for the purposes of this Act
under section 7 of the Northern Ireland Act 1962 shall (except in so far as
their operation is excluded by agreement) apply, subject to such modifications
as may be appropriate, in like manner as they apply in relation to
civil proceedings in the High Court.

(4) In the case of a reference under [Article 31 of the County Courts
(Northern Ireland) Order 1980] subsection (3) shall have effect as if for the
references to section 7 of the Northern Ireland Act 1962 and to
civil proceedings in the High Court there were substituted respectively
references to [Article 48 of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980]
and to civil proceedings in a county court.

(5) If any question arises as to what are, for the purposes of any such
civil proceedings as are mentioned in section 14(1)(a) or (b), the appropriate
modifications of any such rule of court as is mentioned in subsection (3) or
(4), that question shall, in default of agreement, be determined by the
tribunal or the arbitrator or umpire, as the case may be.

Convictions as evidence in civil proceedings.



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